Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:56:21 +0000 (UTC), kobold wrote:
Linux, buggy and unstable at the application layer, always in some half
baked beta release even when it is declared stable, poor and often
lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big
software developers and hardware manufactures, fine as a web server yet
poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms
as many of the myths would have us believe, after all this time as a free
OS still with a tiny market share even though many of the Linux community
claim it to be far superior to the competition, the OS of choice for
paranoid anti capitalist anti conformist geeks, the Linux community are
often in complete denial with regards to the competition.

I have heard all these things said about the Linux OS and the people who
use it. Is there any truth in these rumours?

Since you indicated rumours, you know they are rumours.

Is anyone willing to discuss these allegations sensibly without just
posting a load of abuse and completely one sided debate?

No debate needed. Like you indicated, just myths and allegations.

If it was so insecure why are the anti-virus vendors having a poor
time making money from it. Remember you indicated it is a fine web server.

You have to admit Micro$oft is making money selling it's Anti-virus
software product for an insecure sysetm. Now there is an incentive for
Microsoft to fix the best malware magnet on the planet.

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    ... lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big ... poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms ... often in complete denial with regards to the competition. ... Is there any truth in these rumours? ...
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  • Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.
    ... lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big ... software developers and hardware manufactures, fine as a web server yet ... poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms ... OS still with a tiny market share even though many of the Linux community ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.
    ... lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big ... poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms ... OS still with a tiny market share even though many of the Linux community ... often in complete denial with regards to the competition. ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.
    ... lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big ... poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms ... OS still with a tiny market share even though many of the Linux community ... often in complete denial with regards to the competition. ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.
    ... baked beta release even when it is declared stable, poor and often lacklustre hardware support, rarely supported and seldom back by big software developers and hardware manufactures, fine as a web server yet poor as a desktop OS, not quite as secure and immune to viruses and worms as many of the myths would have us believe, after all this time as a free OS still with a tiny market share even though many of the Linux community claim it to be far superior to the competition, the OS of choice for paranoid anti capitalist anti conformist geeks, the Linux community are often in complete denial with regards to the competition. ...
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